STAND. COM. REP. NO 172

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1047

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1047 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS TO ASSIST PELATRON Q, LLC,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Budget of Finance to issue special purpose revenue bonds to assist Pelatron Q, LLC, with the development of waste-to-energy power plants that use its patented plasma gasification and vitrification process for waste management and energy production in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Construction Alliance; Pelatron Q, LLC; and PVT Land Company.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Zero Waste Kauai.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that Pelatron Q, LLC, offers sustainable solutions for the generation of renewable energy and waste management through the development of waste-to-energy power plants.  Pelatron Q, LLC's power plants use a patented plasma gasification and vitrification process that produces clean renewable energy by taking locally produced municipal solid waste and other material that was previously disposed of in the State's landfills and converting the waste into a synthetic gas used to generate electricity that can be exported to the grid.  Implementation of this measure will reduce the State's carbon footprint, reduce the environmental impact of landfilling waste, and add living-wage jobs to the State's economy.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1047, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1047, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

 

 

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair